On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 19:20 -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
...
> pkinit_open_session():
> 
>     /* Init */
>     /* Solaris Kerberos XXX */
>     r = cctx->p11->C_Initialize(NULL);
> 
> and
>       if ((r = cctx->p11->C_OpenSession(slotlist[i], CKF_SERIAL_SESSION,
>                                         NULL, NULL, &cctx->session)) != 
> CKR_OK)
> 
> - Be aware that pkcs11 session handles are not fork safe.  Do you know
>   whether the cctx will be used across a fork?  See:
>   5102151 krb contexts are not fork safe
>   for the krb bug relating to this issue.

The pkinit plugin doesn't fork(). The cctx->session is only used in the
context of the pkinit plugin which does a C_Initialize() before using
any sessions and finishes with a C_Finalize(). The code looks fine to me
in this regard.

-M


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